During our last game I was playing Japan and did a J1 Pearl Harbor.
As the ANZAC player was mainly investing in ships I thought, why not taking out ANZAC first?
I sunk the ANZAC Navy and took Queensland, but on the following turn, I did not score a single hit on Sidney and my ground units got wiped out by the hand full of Aussies.
:oops:

Or if UK or ANZAC moves units into a Chinese territory, even though they did not DOW on Japan.
Sending units to support China is a provocation, which allows Japan to do a provoked DOW -> no bonus for the US.

Thanks a lot Midnight_Reaper!
The order is placed.  :-D

Later I found this thread, which was also very helpful:
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=23386.0

@Maxheimer:
This was how I did it (more or less)

1st  Round

Purchase: 50 IPC
1x Transport, 1x Destroyer (SZ101)
2x Infantry (CUS)
1x Submarine, 1x Carrier, 1x Transport (SZ10)

Move:

SZ35 -> SZ54
to Guam with 1x Fighter
to SZ10 with SZ26
to SZ10 with 2x Fighter (Hawaii)
to WUS with 1x Str. Bomber
to WUS with 1x Fighter (EUS) (because there was no German Submarine at SZ106)

2nd Round

Purchase: 53 IPC
4x Transport, 1x Carrier (SZ101)
3x Infantry (WUS)

Move:

SZ10 (except 1x Submarine and 2x Destroyer) -> SZ89
to Southeast Mexico with 2x Infantry, 1x Artillery (WUS)
to Wake Island with 1x Fighter (Guam)
to SZ101 with 1x Fighter (WUS)
to CUS with 2x Infantry, 1x Mech. Infantry (WUS)

3rd  Round

Purchase: 53 IPC
2x Transport, 1x Carrier, 2x Fighter (SZ101)
1x Infantry (CUS)

Move:

to SZ86 with 3x Transport
to Brazil with 2x Infantry, 1x Artillery (SE Mexico)
to SZ106 with the remaining Atlantic fleet
to Quebec with all ground (except AAA)
to WUS with 1x Fighter (Wake Island)
to CUS with 3x Infantry (WUS)
to SZ101 with 1x Fighter (EUS)

4th  Round

Purchase: 72 IPC
4x Submarine, 3x Destroyer (SZ10)
2x Str. Bomber (WUS)

Attack: on Spain with Quebec, Brazil, EUS, CUS (to SZ91 with SZ86, SZ101, SZ106)

5th  Round

Purchased 20 land units (EUS + CUS) but not yet a Minor IC in Spain, but this depends on the Axis play.

Hello together,

I am currently shopping at HBG for 1940 Global 2nd Edition and was wondering if the color for US units is “Olive Drab” or “Dark Green”.
Has anyone here experiences?

Best regards,
Fiera

Sorry for the late feedback. I was pretty occupied during the last weeks.  :-(

We did playtest the “Island Hoping” VO and in our opinion it worked very well. The Axis decided to do a G1 Barbarossa and a J1 Pearl Harbor. The idea was to force USA into a Pacific war and that way provide Germany the needed air to crush Russia. This idea worked and the US player did heavily invest in the Pacific to prevent Japan from getting the islands and later even more to get the islands himself. Because of this fact we would say that those new VOs are very good, because before there was not much to lose in the Pacific for the Americans, but a lot to win in Europe.

Resume, we will keep playing with the new VO in our next games and keep you informed!  :wink:

Hello together!
Is it possible to launch a rocket (after you got the research) from Southern Italy Airbase via SZ97 -> SZ99 -> SZ100 to hit the Ukraine Minor IC?

@Baron:

By discarding Okinawa and Aleutians, you are going against history. There is no incentive to reenact this part of PTO WW2.

On that point YG’s VO give more room to act like Allies did in WW2. They recaptured Aleutians and fight over Okinawa.

That is partially correct, Baron.

Okinawa had a huge strategically value, much bigger than on A&A, because it had airbases and docks to repair ships. Furthermore it was essential to keep the connection between Japan main lands, Korea, Manchuria on the one hand and the Japanese fleet in the Southern Pacific on the other hand. So yes, I agree with you and will propose to add this island, when we playtest it next weekend. That way both sides will start with 6 islands/island groups, which need to be captured.

Aleutian Islands had no strategically value at all. The invasion force was small and most likely a feint attack while the main force was heading for Midway. The only reason why USA took it back was prestige. They could not let the Japanese capture US territories. No one did that for more than 200 years. And hey, they got 5 IPC NO for it.  :wink:

To put it in a nutshell, our proposal, in comparison to YG´s, is that you need all islands/island groups to get the token, but discard the following islands/island groups:
Hainan, Formosa, Aleutian Islands and Philippines
(the Philippines keep their own VO because it is a “moral obligation” (Douglas MacArthur) to liberate those)

Additionally this token counts for both sides in our version.
Our idea was to create a simillar situation like in Africa.  :evil:

@Fiera:

… he had not purchased ground units on Germany and moved all troops to Slovakia.

In this specific case there where no units present to be picked up.

Hello YG,
We had a game round last weekend and played with your victory objectives.
After the game the Japanese player stated, that there is no real objective for doing the island hoping. So we decided to implement the victory objective called “Island Hoping” which is the same for Axis and Allies to take control of all of the following 11 islands/island groups:
Iwo Jima, Marianas, Paulau Islands, Caroline Islands, Marshall Islands, Guam, Midway, Wake Island, Hawaiian Islands, Johnston Island, Line Islands
We decided to take out the Philippines as those have their own VO and the Aleutian Islands, as well as the Chinese coast islands because those had a minor strategically value during WW2. 
The VOs we wanted to replace are: London/Sydney Liberation for the Allies and Supremacy for the Axis.
This is not yet play tested, but we are planning to have a new game round soon.

Now we wanted to hear your thoughts about it and found out you came up with a similar idea.  :lol:
@Young:

Pacific
-The Allies control 13 of the 16 Pacific Islands originally controlled by America and Japan
(FOW) *The United States